- Wahnes's Parotia
Taxobox
name = Wahnes's Parotia
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
trend = down
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Paradisaeidae
genus = "Parotia "
species = "P. wahnesi"
binomial = "Parotia wahnesi"
binomial_authority = Rothschild, 1906Wahnes's Parotia ("Parotia wahnesi") is a medium-sized
passerine of the birds of paradise family (Paradisaeidae ). The male has an iridescent yellow-green breast shield, elongated black plumes, three erectile spatule head wires behind each eye, coppery-bronzednasal tuft feathers and long, wedge-shaped tail feathers. The female is a rich brown bird with blackish head. It is approximately 43cm long. Thisspecies is distributed and endemic to the mountain forests ofHuon Peninsula andAdelbert Mountains , northeastPapua New Guinea . The diet consists mainly of fruits andarthropods . The male ispolygamous and performs a spectacular courtship dance in the forest ground.Little is known about its life and habits. The clutch probably contains 1, maybe 2 eggs. These are about 40 x 26 mm and have a pale cream base color. They have a varying pattern of streaks and dots, dense at the large end and very sparse on the other, and consisting of a lower gray and an upper tan layer with some overlap.(Mackay 1990) The name honors the German collector
Carl Wahnes , who discovered the species in 1906Verify source|date=July 2007.Wahnes's Parotia is evaluated as Vulnerable on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II ofCITES ; its threat classification is C2a(1). This indicates that less than 10,000 adult birds exist, fragmented intosubpopulation s of less than 1000, and that they are probably declining.References
*|year=2004|id=16269|title=Parotia wahnesi|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable
* (1990): The Egg of Wahnes' Parotia "Parotia wahnesi" (Paradisaeidae). "Emu" 90(4): 269. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=MU9900269.pdf PDF fulltext]External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5825&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
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